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Which schools produce the most (left), and where it's the biggest part of the school's identity (right). "3×" = that school's notable alumni are three times as likely to have this occupation as the typical school's. People who attended recently weigh more than those from earlier eras.

Most alumni

School	Alumni	vs. typical
Harvard University MA	467	25.6×
Columbia University NY	415	26.5×
Yale University CT	237	32.6×
New York University NY	172	7.8×
University of California-Berkeley CA	147	6.1×
Stanford University CA	146	15.3×
University of Iowa IA	134	7.7×
University of Michigan MI	131	4.8×
University of Chicago IL	115	9.8×
Brown University RI	107	27.5×
Cornell University NY	106	10.9×
Princeton University NJ	91	18.6×
University of Pennsylvania PA	82	4.7×
University of California-Los Angeles CA	82	3.5×
Barnard College NY	76	42.1×
The University of Texas at Austin TX	75	2.7×
Northwestern University IL	74	6.2×
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC	65	4.0×
Vassar College NY	63	47.7×
University of Minnesota MN	57	1.3×
University of Wisconsin-Madison WI	56	1.5×
Johns Hopkins University MD	56	4.9×
Boston University MA	55	2.9×
Syracuse University NY	53	4.0×
University of Southern California CA	51	2.6×
University of Washington WA	51	1.6×
Ohio State University OH	49	1.2×
San Francisco State University CA	48	3.1×
University of Massachusetts-Amherst MA	46	2.7×
Brigham Young University UT	46	3.1×
University of Virginia VA	45	4.0×
Smith College MA	44	19.5×
Oberlin College OH	42	28.9×
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IL	42	1.5×
Sarah Lawrence College NY	41	57.3×
CUNY City College NY	40	2.7×
Dartmouth College NH	39	11.8×
Duke University NC	39	4.6×
CUNY Brooklyn College NY	37	3.2×
University of Arizona AZ	36	1.5×

Biggest part of the school's identity

Shares are shrunk toward the national rate for small counts, and each school must clear the same size-scaled minimum (5–20 people) as the school pages.

School	% of its noted alumni	Alumni
Vermont College of Fine Arts VT	19.4%	24
Sarah Lawrence College NY	10.6%	41
Vassar College NY	10.2%	63
Barnard College NY	10.2%	76
Bennington College VT	9.9%	22
Antioch College OH	9.2%	22
Kenyon College OH	8.3%	19
Colby College ME	7.7%	16
San Francisco State University CA	7.0%	48
Mount Holyoke College MA	7.0%	18
Binghamton University NY	7.0%	25
Smith College MA	6.9%	44
University of Iowa IA	6.7%	134
Warren Wilson College NC	6.7%	5
Oberlin College OH	6.4%	42
Reed College OR	6.3%	20
Emerson College MA	6.3%	17
Hamilton College NY	6.2%	15
Brown University RI	5.8%	107
The University of Montana MT	5.4%	23
Connecticut College CT	5.2%	8
Bowdoin College ME	5.2%	18
Middlebury College VT	5.2%	19
CUNY Brooklyn College NY	5.2%	37
Hollins University VA	5.1%	5
CUNY Hunter College NY	5.1%	29
Macalester College MN	5.1%	7
Bryn Mawr College PA	5.0%	25
Wellesley College MA	4.9%	30
Simmons University MA	4.9%	8
Columbia University NY	4.9%	415
Washington University in St Louis MO	4.6%	35
Northeastern University Oakland CA	4.5%	8
Amherst College MA	4.5%	26
Goucher College MD	4.4%	7
University of California-Irvine CA	4.3%	27
Coe College IA	4.2%	5
Haverford College PA	4.2%	12
Western Washington University WA	4.2%	5
Hampshire College MA	4.2%	7

Full University Alumni

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Most alumni

Biggest part of the school's identity